title: Factors contributing to medical errors and incidents among hospital nurses --nurses' health, quality of life, and workplace predict medical errors and incidents--.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation of medical incidents and errors among nurses with factors describing their lifestyle, health, and work environment. We analyzed questionnaires completed by 6,445 female hospital nurses engaged in shift work in Japanese hospitals with general wards of more than 200 beds. Logistic regression analysis indicated that the risk for medical incidents/errors was predicted by being under treatment, absence due to sickness in the past 6 months, workplace, break times during night shift, bodily pain, and role (emotional). These results indicate that to prevent the occurrence of medical incidents/errors, it is necessary to regard current/recent illness, bodily pain, and role (emotional) as a nurse's personal problems and break times during the night shift and workplace as administrative problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Mejiro University, Saitama, Japan. chiaki@mejiro.ac.jp
authors.forename: Chiaki
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arakawa
authors.forename: Yuka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kanoya
authors.forename: Chifumi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sato
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000328:Adult; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D016015:Logistic Models; D019300:Medical Errors; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D016272:Occupational Health; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012308:Risk Management / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology